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By Tai, October 30, 2009 7:16 pm

@anhhung wrote a review on Mimo, the Twitter clone that supports SMS as I had envisioned.

I don’t intend to dig further on Mimo. Just this thought crossed my mind:

When an original product innovates, it creates a gap with its clones. This gap either forces to clone to chase the cloned, or allows the clone to innovate and differentiate itself.

If the second action is taken, an opportunity has been realized.

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By Tai, September 23, 2009 7:08 pm

1. They regain focus by releasing the new search with local search.
2. They put on the negotiate the crucial contract with Microsoft to prolong the search war saga.
3. They trim off “bad Yahoo!”.
4. They save costs on R&D by cloning Tumblr for their new service Meme.
5. They regained email market share with new improvements to Yahoo! Mail.
6. And they impose higher alpha than expected.

Welcome back on track, Yahoo!

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By Tai, May 2, 2009 3:24 pm

I could not find the industry structure of social media, so I decide to graph it, piece by piece.

We’ve been talking about early adopters and near-future critical mass. What links them?

Here is what I propose:

Any example?

See this measure of unique visitors, which services do you think it represents?

Click here to see the answer.

Reflection

1. This is a personal attempt to model one aspect of an industry
2. The decline is purely imaginary as few successful products have reached their decline.
3. I’ll figure out to whom and how I will want to present this type of modeling.

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By Tai, April 10, 2009 12:59 pm

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By Tai, January 1, 2009 10:24 pm

baomoi.com announced that they can help an entity (a company, a brand, an organization, an individual…) answer the question “What do they (the press) think about us?!”

This makes good business!

So as to elaborate why this makes good business, here’s a scenario of how demand will raise for this service:

The scenario

Company C launches product P. P’s brand manager M wants to observe reactions to P with different metrics. Response from the press is one important channel and M can choose to use baomoi’s service. The cost will be planned to conventional marketing budget.

It’s conventional!

What I mean by conventional is: while some businesses start to grow weary of social media, newspaper is considered non-2.0. The budget can be planned to conventional thus would raise no concern of debate around the board of C.

It’s measurable

Business objectives need to be measurable. This services can actually return concrete numbers for their users customers.

Recommendations

1. Tech first. The business model can return only when satisfactory results are returned to customers. This requires technology focus.
2. Consultation. They want a consulting team consisting of people who don’t only know their own business but also have good domain knowledge of different industries so they can provide consulting service to customers in additional to the core business. From my observation, baomoi has had a foreign-trained COO.
3. A decent CFO who can turn opportunities to profits.

What do you think of this service?